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<td class="v">8:1</td>
<td>Who is as the wise man? and who knoweth the interpretation of a thing? a man's wisdom maketh his face to shine, and the boldness of his face shall be changed.</td>
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<td class="v">8:2</td>
<td>I counsel thee to keep the king's commandment, and that in regard of the oath of God.</td>
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<td class="v">8:3</td>
<td>Be not hasty to go out of his sight: stand not in an evil thing; for he doeth whatsoever pleaseth him.</td>
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<td class="v">8:4</td>
<td>Where the word of a king is, there is power: and who may say unto him, What doest thou?</td>
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<td class="v">8:5</td>
<td>Whoso keepeth the commandment shall feel no evil thing: and a wise man's heart discerneth both time and judgment.</td>
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<td class="v">8:6</td>
<td>Because to every purpose there is time and judgment, therefore the misery of man is great upon him.</td>
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<td class="v">8:7</td>
<td>For he knoweth not that which shall be: for who can tell him when it shall be?</td>
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<td class="v">8:8</td>
<td>There is no man that hath power over the spirit to retain the spirit; neither hath he power in the day of death: and there is no discharge in that war; neither shall wickedness deliver those that are given to it.</td>
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<td class="v">8:9</td>
<td>All this have I seen, and applied my heart unto every work that is done under the sun: there is a time wherein one man ruleth over another to his own hurt.</td>
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<td class="v">8:10</td>
<td>And so I saw the wicked buried, who had come and gone from the place of the holy, and they were forgotten in the city where they had so done: this is also vanity.</td>
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<td class="v">8:11</td>
<td>Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.</td>
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<td class="v">8:12</td>
<td>Though a sinner do evil an hundred times, and his days be prolonged, yet surely I know that it shall be well with them that fear God, which fear before him:</td>
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<td class="v">8:13</td>
<td>But it shall not be well with the wicked, neither shall he prolong his days, which are as a shadow; because he feareth not before God.</td>
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<td class="v">8:14</td>
<td>There is a vanity which is done upon the earth; that there be just men, unto whom it happeneth according to the work of the wicked; again, there be wicked men, to whom it happeneth according to the work of the righteous: I said that this also is vanity.</td>
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<td class="v">8:15</td>
<td>Then I commended mirth, because a man hath no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be merry: for that shall abide with him of his labour the days of his life, which God giveth him under the sun.</td>
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<td class="v">8:16</td>
<td>When I applied mine heart to know wisdom, and to see the business that is done upon the earth: (for also there is that neither day nor night seeth sleep with his eyes:)</td>
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<td class="v">8:17</td>
<td>Then I beheld all the work of God, that a man cannot find out the work that is done under the sun: because though a man labour to seek it out, yet he shall not find it; yea farther; though a wise man think to know it, yet shall he not be able to find it.</td>
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